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          <title>2 Cents: Zero Tolerance</title>
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Zero tolerance. Is that what we have come to? No common sense, no flexibility, no sense of doing the right thing.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:00:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Andre Bauer</title>
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Last year, I got the chance to sit and talk for about an hour with Lieutenant Governor Andre Bauer when he was here at Channel 2. Unfortunately, the Andre Bauer I saw on News 2 Wednesday was all politician.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:28:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: DTV Transition</title>
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The switch to digital television is here. Channel 2 will complete the transition here in the lowcountry when we turn off our analog signal at 11:30 tonight.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:56:57 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Abuse Pictures</title>
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On Wednesday, President Obama changed his mind on a big decision. He now says he&#8217;ll fight to prevent the release of photographs that show american military people abusing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 16:09:31 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: School consolidation</title>
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Some Charleston County Parents are up in arms this week as the school board released a list of schools that could be closed due to consolidation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:51:08 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: Gambling and games</title>
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If you&#8217;re planning to gather &#8216;round the kitchen table for family game night, there something you need to know. You may be doing something illegal. That&#8217;s right. Yahtzee, Monopoly ... even Chutes and Ladders &#8230; they&#8217;re all illegal in the Palmetto state.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 11:41:28 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: Face of the republican party?</title>
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This week, some of our politicians have been wasting time on a petty debate: who is the face of the republican party?            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:07:08 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: Twitter and social media</title>
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Well&#8230; it&#8217;s no secret that times they are a changing. You don&#8217;t send a letter in the mail or make a long distance telephone call anymore. If you want to stay in touch there are, it seems, at least a thousand other ways to stay hyper-connected.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 11:56:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: Medical cut backs</title>
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It&#8217;s no secret that in this economy, people are trying to save money every way they know how&#8230; but certainly if there is one industry that is safe from the cut backs it would have to be the medical profession right? WRONG!            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:53:16 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: DTV June 12th</title>
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By now you&#8217;ve heard that we will not be making the digital switch on February 17, 2009. Many of you are asking &#8220;Why the delay?&#8220;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:38:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: Cigarette Tax</title>
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Lawmakers are battling it out again over a proposed cigarette tax increase for South Carolina. It seems the argument isn&#8217;t over the obvious question of whether or not we should raise the tax on cigarettes.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:38:30 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Rush Limbaugh</title>
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As you have probably heard, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh recently said he &#8220;hopes&#8221; President Obama fails. In the full context of what he said, it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s talking about liberal policies. but it&#8217;s still the wrong message to send in this economic crisis.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:24:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents: Parking near the bridge</title>
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Town Council became aware of parking safety issues along Patriots Point Boulevard following a briefing from Mount Pleasant Police Chief Harry Sewell.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:35:21 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Customer service</title>
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Christmas might be over but the shopping hasn&#8217;t slowed down. Many of us will be rushing in and out of local businesses cashing in all of those gift cards that we received , making returns or exchanges or maybe just looking for those after Christmas sales.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:07:15 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Toys for Tots</title>
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You know each week I venture down to our studio to tape the editorials. Typically, it consists of my two cents on whatever hot topic is leading in the news or maybe just something that has been on my mind.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:02:20 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Consolidation</title>
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Some Charleston County Parents are up in arms this week as the school board released a list of schools that could be closed due to consolidation.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:44:04 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; DTV and what it means to you</title>
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You will hear this editorial and hear us talk about the digital switch and DTV many times before February 17, 2009 &#8230; Why? Because that&#8217;s when all full-power television stations nationwide must stop using the old method of transmitting TV signals known as analog and begin broadcasting exclusively in a digital format.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 11:07:18 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Buy local</title>
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Financial meltdowns, bailouts, credit crisis, recession, depression..These are the headlines we hear everyday now. We get it, our economy is in trouble. So, what can we do to help turn it around?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:57:33 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Communion</title>
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This is a tough one. I am not here to question anyone&#8217;s beliefs. However, one of the leading stories on many news networks is a very controversial report about a sc priest who told his parishioners they should refrain from taking Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the democratic president elect is pro choice.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:59:06 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; 44th Presidential Election</title>
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We heard from a lot of you on election day about how long you waited in line to vote &#8230; 2 hours &#8230; 3 hours &#8230; 4 hours.&nbsp; Did you expect anything less?&nbsp; We&#8217;re talking about a nationally historic election.&nbsp; More people were engaged in this uniquely American process than at anytime in our history.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:53:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Water coller talk</title>
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Obama and Biden&#8230; McCain and Palin&#8230;. You can&#8217;t turn on the television, log on to the internet or read the paper without hearing something about one of these people. And believe it or not, that&#8217;s a good thing. You have to have information to make an informed choice&#8230;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:37:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Ronald McDonald House</title>
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The Ronald McDonald House of Charleston is a home away from home for the families of seriously ill children. Many of these families are visiting Charleston because their loved one is undergoing treatment at nearby Hospitals.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:50:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Mudslinging</title>
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A famous canadian politician once said that politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. If you&#8217;re paying attention to our presidential campaign, you know exactly what he meant.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:48:11 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Vote</title>
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People have a lot of reasons why they don&#8217;t vote. It seems to me that every election year I hear someone say &#8220;well I don&#8217;t know enough about the issues or the candidates to vote&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:33:36 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Gas prices</title>
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Last Week when the threat of Hurricane Ike was approaching the Texas Coast There was a lot of talk about the potential for higher gas prices. It didn&#8217;t take long for these fears to become a reality, as we watched the prices here in south Carolina jump from 3-61 a gallon to 450 even 523 at some stations in just a matter of hours.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 16:12:22 EST</pubDate>
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There is no question that Tropical Storm Hannah posed a serious threat to the us last weekend.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:27:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; Stand up to cancer</title>
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It&#8217;s not often that you will see rival television networks set aside their competitive nature and join together. To warrant such collaboration, a cause would have to be monumentally significant.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:47:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>2 Cents &#45; The Smoking Ban Wagon</title>
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The city of The Isle of Palms is the latest town trying to jump on the &#8220;smoking ban wagon&#8221; after the city council voted Tuesday evening to pass the first reading of the ban that would snuff out public smoking.&nbsp; If passed, the Isle of palms would be fourth town in our area to be smoke free joining the likes of Mount Pleasant, Sullivan&#8217;s island and the city of Charleston.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:17:55 EST</pubDate>
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